The Iran Nuclear Program thread

[jon-nyc]

I'm glad you remembered that night. I had already forgotten.

[bachophile]

In the bowels of sheba this morning at 715.

We are hearing a direct hit on Beershebas biggest hospital. Still don’t know details

[blondie]

I’m praying you stay safe and your hospital stays safe Bach.

[kluurs]

Sorry to hear that news, Bach. Keep your head down - and a few meters of concrete between you and anything wayward.

[jon-nyc]

Horrible.

[bachophile]

hasnt been an easy day, Soroka is sending all its patients to other hospitals including ours. big fucking mess.

we all hope this ends soon.

[AndyD]

Targeting? Are the Iranian missiles accurate to a building or room or city block? Or not?

[Doctor Phibes]

@bachophile said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

hasnt been an easy day, Soroka is sending all its patients to other hospitals including ours. big fucking mess.

we all hope this ends soon.

Bach - you're in all our thoughts. Hopefully you can stay relatively safe

[bachophile]

accurate to a city block is my guess. but i know the area, been there many times. its really the only big building and campus in the area, closest military targets are way out of the city (hatzerim AFB for example) so its really the only real target in that area of Beersheva. it was obviously directly targeted.

[jon-nyc]

Heavy water reactor at Arak.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Funny.

[Mik]

This is a really interesting op-ed from an Israeli journalist, obviously not a fan of Netanyahu. But he presents some worthwhile observations and possibilities.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/netanyahu-s-iran-endgame-is-edging-closer/ar-AA1H1be5

[jon-nyc]

Job opening.

[Renauda]

@Mik

A lot to unpack in that article. Shows that a person can still wholeheartedly support Israel but remain sceptical and even oppose Netanyahu’s governing coalition.

[Mik]

There sure was, and it's a perspective we don't usually find here.

[Horace]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

So it’s been 48 hours since the night that was supposed to be remembered for centuries….

[Horace]

@Mik said in The Iran Nuclear Program thread:

This is a really interesting op-ed from an Israeli journalist, obviously not a fan of Netanyahu. But he presents some worthwhile observations and possibilities.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/netanyahu-s-iran-endgame-is-edging-closer/ar-AA1H1be5

From the op-ed:

And then there’s a wildcard unique to the Iran situation. Even this very dire but familiar scenario relies on the assumption that Israel and America really do know everything about Iran’s nuclear programme and that there wasn’t an emergency, undeclared backup stash of materials and a secret cadre. If there was, and even some of it survives, there will still be a race for the bomb — except the bomb, or bombs, will appear in a fractured, unstable, justifiably paranoid region in a state of civil war. An entirely new nightmare with consequences far beyond Netanyahu and Trump’s terms, or even lifetimes.

That seems obvious, but I agree it's not said out loud much.

[Renauda]

@Horace

That seems obvious, but I agree it's not said out loud much.

It would be what Donald Rumsfeld termed a “known unknown”.

Nobody in the know likes to conjecture those in public.

[jon-nyc]

The Mossad stole 100k documents out of a warehouse that completely documented the program. Problem is, Iran knows that. Some things are hard to change though, especially under-mountain architecture and reactor locations.